Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Appearances do not always deceive. We are once again laboring in those fecund if weed-strewn fields where ...

An overview of “Free Speech under Threat: How Anglosphere Values Are Being Undermined by Fear, Political Correctness, and Misplaced Concerns about Privacy,” a ...

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. – Dionysius of Halicarnassus Students of persuasive speech learn a skill, a craft, and an art. Contents come and go; speaking effectively is an ...

"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent." – Dionysius of Halicarnassus Students learn a skill, a craft, and an art. Contents come and go; speaking effectively is an enduring asset to ...

The season six finale of The Walking Dead left many fans upset, not just because of its major cliffhanger, but also because Negan, the foul-mouthed baddie from the comic books, got an introduction ...

Not long ago, the ubiquitous, open internet promised unfettered, borderless communication and, along with it, the democratizing, empowering values traditionally associated with free speech. But while ...

The presidential election is underway, and it looks like we’re in for quite a ride. Ever since 2016, we’ve been fretting about our vulnerability to misleading news and targeted online ads, and now ...

UNDER this modest title another of those valuable contributions, which we owe to the Smithsonian Institution, has been made to science. Researches into the ethnography of the North American Indians ...